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Big On Birthdays!

Are you Big On Birthdays around your house?
Do you send out a lot of birthday cards every year?
Are you looking for a great “girly” card that isn’t over the top?

This card has a great font, both on the stamp, and on the background
paper (Neutrals Designer Series Paper Stack) and those roses are a
great place add a spot of color. That’s just enough “girly” to go around!

There’s only one thing to stamp here, and that makes for a quick
and easy card! Which also means you can make bunches of them!

Try stamping a stack of these ahead of time, then just color in the
flowers as needed!! You could even make yourself little kits to have
on hand. Cut and stamp the pieces like an assembly line and tuck
what you need for each card in it’s own envelope. Put that together
with some adhesive and watercolor pencils in a tote, and you are
ready to craft on the road!

These roses are colored in with the new Watercolor Pencils
in the Occasions Catalog (pg 24). I used Real Red, Old Olive
and Bermuda Bay. It’s just the pencils, no water was added to
get this look. I do think maybe the Real Red pencil looks a little
too pink”ish” to be called Real Red, though. For a simple
embellishment, some black sequins are combined with
rhinestones to add just a bit of bling!

The back of the envelope gets the same coloring treatment
using the Watercolor pencils…with an additional greeting!

With this card, being Big On Birthdays at your house
can be a whole lot easier this year!

Happy Stamping!Karen

Eeek! I forgot about the ribbon!

It’s from the Sending Love Ribbon Combo Pack in the OC.
I like the skinny width, but it was white, so I held it down with
my tweezers and drug it over my black ink pad. It didn’t come
out as black as I would have liked, but I went with it anyway!
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